tetomb

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by tetomb 14y ago
Why wouldn't they implement a system where you can flag certain photos for promotion and receive a cut if that photo is used for promotion? Why can Facebook only come up with monetization strategies that take advantage of its users?
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by tetomb 14y ago
Yes but according to the article, he wanted his normal salary and the equity. So the only part of your comment that applies is leaving a stable job for an unstable one. This is a risk but not a big risk at all if the engineer was "one of th
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by tetomb 14y ago
I think the issue that people are picking up on is that if that is how you spend your own money, it is likely that you will spend company money in the same way making you a riskier investment. I know my comments haven't been full of praise
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by tetomb 14y ago
But prior to that you say: Inspired, I hacked out the feature that was the answer to the flunked question and used it on the partners. If it was such an easy feature to add and so important that you had several strong answers to the iss
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by tetomb 14y ago
But the more valuable it is the more unlikely it is that it will be given away. Is spending time and money on the extremely small chance of getting hold of zap.com smarter than using those efforts to get hold of zap.co or zap.me? How much m
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by tetomb 14y ago
I guess the post can be seen as a cautionary tale about the dangers of spending too much time on your domain name and not enough on your product.
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by tetomb 14y ago
I do not understand your comment at all. To what do you vehemently disagree? That it is a slim chance of securing the domain name? If so, why does the rest of your comment discuss how important YC is to UK programmers?
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by tetomb 14y ago
That depends on how you define "a top 10% executive founder".
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by tetomb 14y ago
I felt like that at first but I think the issue is that the potential employee wanted his normal salary in addition to equity. He would not undertake any risk for that equity and that can definitely lead to problems in company camaraderie.
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by tetomb 14y ago
Besides the conflict of interest, I find the fact that a significant portion of their articles are about themselves, or other tech journalists, extremely irritating. Like when a documentary is about the filmaker making the documentary inste
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by tetomb 14y ago
It is frustrating how the American government is trillions of dollars in debt, waging pointless/dangerous wars and quickly turning America into a police/welfare state but instead of worrying about foreign and monetary policy, the most impor
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by tetomb 14y ago
I feel that the four day work week is the sweet spot for productivity and I will institute this when I start hiring. 28-32 hours of work a week is better than 15-20 hours of work and 20 hours of facebook and lolcats.
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by tetomb 14y ago
A very refreshing landing page. Simple design that explains what you do. Looking forward to you coming out of beta.
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by tetomb 14y ago
Surely they realised that it was only a matter of time.
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by tetomb 14y ago
It would be interesting to read a preview of the book. I think that releasing software quickly is completely different to releasing a physical item quickly. You continue working on the software and update as necessary but you cannot update
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by tetomb 14y ago
Thanks for posting this. http://reformsection5.org.uk/ Looks interesting.
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by tetomb 14y ago
If you are not happy with being in the trenches, it is simple, get out of the trenches. ...Who often had little to no say in the outcome? No Choice? If you are unhappy, find a new job. Edit: formatting
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by tetomb 14y ago
+1. I really like bitbucket, especially the free private repositories. I will definitely look to buy products/services from you when the time comes. Hope you get hold of the .com domain name soon.
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by tetomb 14y ago
I agree that apple did bring it all together rather well (over a sustained marketing and development phase) but I just don't see how anyone could think that smart phones similar to those that we have today weren't inevitable with or without
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by tetomb 14y ago
"Would the innovation have happened if Apple hadn't driven it? Not any time soon." I am fascinated by this statement. What evidence do you have to support it?
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by tetomb 14y ago
Well every one knows that becoming severely ill is a possibility for anyone, that's what insurance is for. Can't afford insurance? Give up unhealthy habits to lower your rates, get a better job, look after family so that they will support y
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by tetomb 14y ago
Why on earth should the responsibility (of those that will become redundant) fall on the early adopters of a new technology? If I had become a fax machine expert would it be fair to charge a tax on those that began to use email to support m
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by tetomb 14y ago
I can access it from South Africa.
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by tetomb 14y ago
Some good advice, I think our most valuable lessons come from failure. One point that wasn't touched on, and that may be significant in this case, is that is can be very difficult building a business around a domain name.
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by tetomb 14y ago
When you click publish and you are not signed in: http://i.imgur.com/n7ETQ.png http://checkthis.com/sboa
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by tetomb 14y ago
http://checkthis.com/885l I liked it until I read "fuck it" in the options when publishing.
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by tetomb 14y ago
I would have liked them to move to bitbucket.org because it was built with Django.